Michael Boyd (director)
| Michael Boyd | |
|---|---|
| Born |
6 July 1955 Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Residence | London, England |
| Occupation | Theatre director, former artistic director |
| Partner(s) | Caroline Hall |
| Children | 3 |
Sir Michael Boyd (born 6 July 1955) is a British theatre director, and the former artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Boyd was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and educated at Latymer Upper School in London, Daniel Stewart's College, Edinburgh, and at the University of Edinburgh where he gained an M.A. in English Literature and performed with the Edinburgh University Drama Society.
Boyd trained as a director at the Malaya Bronnaya Theatre in Moscow, and in 1979 took up his first post as a trainee director at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry, graduating to Assistant Director a year later. In 1982 he joined the Sheffield Crucible as an Associate Director, and three years later became founding Artistic Director of the Tron Theatre in Glasgow, where he staged a production of Macbeth starring Iain Glen, an adaptation of Janice Galloway’s The Trick is to Keep Breathing and Michel Tremblay’s Quebec plays, The Real World? and The Guid Sisters.
Boyd joined the RSC in 1996 as an Associate Director, staging the three parts of Henry VI together with Richard III at the Young Vic in London in April 2002, as part of the This England: Histories Cycle.
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